Doctorates and PhDs awarded in 2003

Faculty of Humanities

Dr.phil. degrees

Lektor, cand.mag. Anders Bøgh: Sejren i kvindens hånd. Kampen om magten i Norden 1365-89.

Lektor, ph.d. Steen Brock: Niels Bohr’s Philosophy of Quantum Physics in the Light of the Helmholtzian Tradition of Theoretical Physics.

Lektor, lic.phil. Karsten Hvidtfeldt Nielsen: Interpreting Spinoza’s Arguments  Toward a Formal Theory of Consistent Language Scepticism. Imitating Ethica.

Lektor, ph.d. Carsten Porskrog Nielsen: Rentegods og hovedgårdsdrift. Godsstrukturer og godsøkonomi i hertugdømmet Slesvig 1524-1770.

Lektor, cand.mag. Stig Thøgersen: A County of Culture: Twentieth-Century China Seen from the Village Schools of Zouping, Shandong.

PhD degrees

Charlotte Boje Hilligsø Andersen: Middelalderens militære aristokrati. Belyst ved en analyse af genstandsmateriale fra udvalgte danske borge og voldsteder.

Anne-Sofie Dideriksen: Das Erzählen von Geschichte(n) in der deutschen Prosa der 90er Jahre.

Nanette Louise Hale: Time-Space in the English Indian Novel. A Study of Chronotopicity in the Works of Paul Scott and Salman Rushdie.

Jesper Hede: Dante’s Divina Commedia and the Problem of Its Thematic Coherence.

Anders Damgren Højen: Second-language Speech Perception and Production in Adult Learners before and after Short-term Immersion.

Mads Holst Jensen: Public Enemy or Vanguard of the Revolution? The Social Construction of the Chinese Liumang (Hooligan).

Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen: Den performende beskuer. Kunstanalyse med krop og køn.

Lars Konzack: Edutainment. Leg og lær med computermediet.

Anne Trine Larsen: En slags mandinder. En analyse af køn og arbejde i Danmark 1950-1989.

Kristine Kjærsgaard Nielsen Midtgaard: Småstatens offensive magt- og sikkerhedsstrategi. En analyse af FN-politikkens status og rolle i dansk sikkerhedspolitik 1949-65.

Ejnar Martin Mikkelsen: Bebyggelsen i bronzealder og tidlig ældre jernalder i Østthy.

Henrik Skov Nielsen: Tertium datur – om litteraturen eller det ikke-værende.

Lis Norup: Udtrykkets furie. Dekadencens kunst og kultur.

Anne Marie Olesen: Erkendelse, praksis og verden. Et metafysisk opgør og dets implikationer for sandhedsbegrebet.

Merete Bøge Pedersen: Prostitution og Grundloven. Regulering af og debat om prostitution i Danmark i perioden ca. 1860-1906.

Kim Su Rasmussen: Maurice Blanchot. Fra nationalisme til neutralitet.

Kjetil Sandvik: Devising Multimedia. Teater som analyse- og designredskab for interaktive multimediefortællinger.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Dr.med. degrees

Medical Science

Overlæge Jeppe Hagstrup Christensen : n-3 fatty acids and the risk of sudden cardiac death: Emphasis on heart rate variability.

Adjunkt Kimmo Jensen, ph.d.: Short-term plasticity at GABA-synapses in the central nervous system. A patch-clamp study of rodent neurons.

Tan Jinquan, MD, ph.d:  Human lymphocyte motility. A quantitative examination of lymphocyte chemotaxis and adhesion, and its regulation.  

Cand.med. Won Yong Kim, ph.d.: Non-invasive estimation of left ventricular chamber size and volumetric flow by three-dimensional echocardiography.

1. reservelæge Torben Møller-Pedersen, ph.d.:  On the structural origin of refractive instability and corneal haze after excimer laser keratectomy for myopia.

1. reservelæge Jan Maxwell Nørgaard, ph.d.: Cell biology of chemotherapy resistance in acute myeloid leukaemia.

Lektor, Cand.scient, ph.d. Søren Paludan: Virus-cell interactions between herpes simplex virus and leukocytes: Molecular mechanisms and impact on antiviral defense.

Cand.polyt. Jesper Skovhus Thomsen, ph.d.: Static histomorphometry and bone strength of the human spine and iliac crest – relation to age and sex.  

Cand.med. Peter Vestergaard, ph.d.:  Fracture risk secondary to disease.

Overlæge Lotte Ørskov: Aspects of hormonal regulation of glucose metabolism in healthy and type 1 diabetic subjects.

PhD degrees

Odontology

Cand.polyt. Paolo Maria Cattaneo: Orthodontic aspects of bone mechanics and bone remodelling.

Cand.odont. Nestor Rodrigo Lopez Fernandez: Periodontitis in adolescents. Studies among Chilean high school students.

Nursing

Cand.cur. Susan Maybritt Rydahl Hansen: Hospitalsindlagte patienters oplevede lidelser – i livet med uhelbredelig kræft.

Medical Science

Cand.scient. Lars Dyrskjøt Andersen: Classification of bladder cancer by microarray expression profiling – towards a general clinical use of microarrays in cancer diagnostics

Cand.med. Inge Scheel Andersen: The extrinsic neural control of ano-rectal motility in the Göttingen Minipig.

Cand.med. Isil Pinar Bor : Microdeletions on the Y chromosome.

Cand.med. Marius Berndt Carstensen: Postprandial lipaemia and endothelial function in type 2 diabetic subjects. A comparison in type 2 diabetic male subjects with and without verified myocardial infarction.

Qing Chai, MD: The role of TGF-β1 in ESRD in vivo.

Cand.scient. Jane Hvarregaard Christensen: Molecular cell pathology of autosomal dominant familial neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus.

Cand.scient. Johannes Dalgaard Clausen: Mutational analysis of Ca ²⁺ – and nucleotide-binding, catalytic function, and intramolecular communication of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca ²⁺ – ATPase.

Cand.med. Asger Lau Dalmose: The urine storage and voiding function modulated by electrical stimulation.

Cand.med. Søren Rasmussen Deutch: Elbow joint dislocation. An experimental study of joint pathokinematics.

Cand.med. Christian Born Djurhuus: Aspects of acute glucocorticosteroid and growth hormone actions in the regulation of human lipid metabolism.

Cand.med. Liselotte M. Sabroe  Ebbesen: Hyperhomocysteinemia due to folate deficiency. Impact on haemostasis and vascular biology.

Cand.med. Henrik Eckardt: Growth factor enhancement of bone formation

Cand.med. Christian Emil Faber:  Flextube reflectometry – a new method for determination of sites of upper airway narrowing during sleep.

Cand.scient. Casper Møller Frederiksen: Classification of Colorectal Cancer using microarrays.

Christiaan M. Fulton, B.Sc.:  Sodium dependent bicarbonate cotransport (NBC). Characterization in rat kidney and testes and development of an electroneutral NBC knockout mouse.

Cand.scient. Christian Gottrup: Development of instance-based methods to predict tissue outcome in acute ischemic stroke based on specific patterns in MRI.

Teodor P. Grantcharov, MD:  Virtual reality computer simulation- a valid method for assessment of technical skills in laparoscopic surgery.

Cand.scient. Bettina Laborne Dencker Hansen: Evaluation of strategies to ensure high concentrations of IL-2 locally in tumor tissue by retroviral gene tranfer to tumor and tumor localizing cells.

Cand.med. Karina Bækby Houborg: Postoperative rehabilitation of elderly patients by physical training.

Cand.med. Gitte M. Hvistendahl:  Pathophysiological aspects of nocturnal polyuria in healthy elderly volunteers: An explorative study of the pharmacokinetics and the effects of dDAVP on renal water and salt excretion.

Cand.med. Thomas Bo Jensen : Stimulation and substitution of bone allograft around noncemented implants.

Cand.med. Steen Lund Jensen: Elbow joint laxity after experimental excision of the radial head. The influence of associated collateral ligament injuries and the efficacy of radial head prosthetic replacement and ligament repair.

Cand.med. Anni Ravnsbæk Jensen: A Comparative Population Based Study on Breast Cancer Patients in Denmark and Sweden – Aspects of Early Diagnosis, Axillary Surgery and Registration.

Cand.med. Elise Snitker Jensen : Seasonal variation of meningococcal disease and factors associated with its outcome.

Cand.scient. Mads Toustrup Jensen: Structure-function relationship of the A-M3 sector of Na ⁺ , K ⁺ -ATPase studied by site-directed mutagenesis.

Cand.scient Claus Johansen: In vitro and in vivo regulation of the transcription factors AP-1 and NF-κB by 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D ₃ and Calcipotriol.

Cand.scient. Malene Munk Jørgensen: An important factor in the protein quality control of the low density lipoprotein receptor.

Cand.med. Anne  Kaltoft: Myocardial Perfusion Following Primary PCI for Acute Myocardial Infarction – Assessment with ^99m Tc-Sestamibi SPECT.

Cand.med. Margit Staum Kaltoft: Streptococcus pneumoniae in childhood.

Cand.med., Marianne Knap, Radical Cystectomy in Bladder Cancer. Indication, Prognosis and Morbidity. Analysis of a consecutive cohort of patients treated at Aarhus University Hospital 1992-98.

Cand.med. Søren Kold: Surgical technique’s influence on femoral fracture risk and implant fixation. Compaction versus conventional bone removing techniques.

Cand.med. Lene Kristensen: Atrial fibrillation in patients with sick sinus syndrome. Clinical and electrocardiographic predictors of atrial fibrillation after pacemaker implantation.

Cand.med. Trine Hyrup Mogensen : Molecular mechanisms of NF-κB activation during viral infections.

Cand.scient Tina Mygind: Chlamydia pneumoniae: PCR detection and cell-mediated immune response to infection.

Cand.med. Dorthe Svenstrup Møller: The accuracy of home blood pressure measurement in the diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension and hypertensive mechanisms in obstructive sleep apnea.

Cand.med. Lene Svendstrup Nielsen: Udbyttet af en dyspnøklinik for primærsektoren.

Cand.med. Carsten Obel: Epidemiological studies of stress during pregnancy and fetal brain development.

Zhiwei Pan, MD: Health effects of indoor air pollution: Experimental studies of biological mechanism and measuring methods for objective and subjective effects on the eyes and nose.

Cand.med. Bodil Ginnerup Pedersen: CT Colonography,  a Danish Perspective.

Cand.scient. Anette Høj Petersen: Characterization of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and application in hybridization-based technologies for genotyping.

Cand.med. Jens Aage Kølsen Petersen: The Effect of Hypertonicity on Immune Function.

Cand.med. Peter Vestergaard Rasmussen: Neuropathic Pain – Clinical Aspects.

Cand.med. Yazan F. Rawashdeh: Renal resistive index measures as pathophysiological markers of obstructive uropathy.

Cand.med. Anne Lene Dalkjær Riis: Fuel metabolism and muscle protein kinetics in hyperthyroidism.

Cand.med. Henriette Lassen Schaumburg: The genetic background of nocturnal enuresis.

Yimin Shi, MD: Neonatal unilateral ureteral obstruction in rats: Functional and molecular long-term changes of kidney functions.

Cand.med. Lone Storgaard: Genetical and prenatal determinants for semen quality: An epidemiological twin study.

Cand.med. Susanne Wulff Svendsen: Shoulder disorders and postural load factors.

Cand.med. Jette Sønderskov: Occupational styrene exposure and haematological diseases. A nested case-control study in the Danish reinforced plastics industry.

Cand.scient. Helle Erbs Toldbod: Studies on dendritic cell based vaccination in a murine model of malignant melanoma.

Cand.med. Kristian Valbak : Suitability for psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Stud. med. Mikala Wang: The immunomodulatory actions of CTB and its use as an adjuvant for antigen-specific oral tolerance induction in autoimmune diabetes.

Cand.scient. Majken Westergaard: Transcriptional circuits in normal and diseased skin.

Sheng Ping Wu, MD: In vivo measurements of wall shear stresses in human arteries by MR phase velocity mapping.

Xiuqing Zhang, M.Sc: Towards an understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms in chromosome deletion syndromes.

Cand.med. Niels Kristian Aagaard: Muscle strength, muscle mass and contents of muscle magnesium, potassium and NaK-pumps in chronic alcoholics with and without alcoholic liver disease – Effects of magnesium supplementation – Relation to spironolactone treatment.

Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr.jur. degree

Lars Hedegaard Kristensen: Studier i erhvervsfinansieringsret.

PhD degrees

Mette Hastrup Andersen: Skatteretlig genoptagelse i forvaltningsretlig belysning – med særlig henblik på en analyse af genoptagelse af skatteansættelsen.

Carter Walter Bloch: Aspects of Economic Policy in Emerging Markets.

Ullan Böwadt: En undersøgelse og diskussion af foreliggende empiri fra forskning i tilsyneladende parapsykologiske fænomener samt diskussioner af udvalgte teoretiske forklaringer.

Per Bredholt Christensen: Anerkendelse af stater – en undersøgelse af anerkendelsesaktens betydning for den retlige statstilblivelse med særligt henblik på nyere statspraksis.

Annette Kjær Fuglsang: The relationship between Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in traffic accident victims.

Bernhard Hansen: Party Activism in Denmark. A Micro Level Approach to a Cross-sectional Analysis of the Correlates of Party Activism.

Kristine Marie Jensen: Baskets and Body-Parts: A Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic investigation of Children´s Development of Spatical Cognition and Language.

Mette Kold Jensen: Døden er ikke en fiasko her i livet.

Allan Jones: Investigation of the interactive effects of gender and anxiety on pain response using noxious thermal stimulation.

Birgitte Jørgensen: Retsvirkninger af omstødelse.

Michael Knie-Andersen: Customer Relationship Management in the Financial Sector.

Peter Myhre Lildholdt: Essays on Seasonality, Long Memory, and Volatility.

Louise Vadheim Mortensen : Ytringsfrihedens usikre grænser – en retssammenlignende undersøgelse af aktuelle ytringsfrihedsproblemer med særlig henblik på ærekrænkelse af offentlige personer.

Monica Stougaard Nielsen: Medierende strategier hos para- og tetraplegikere.

Morten Ørregaard Nielsen: Multivariate Fractional Integration and Cointegration.

Thomas Olesen: Long Distance Zapatismo. Globalization and the Construction of Solidarity.

Morten Overgaard: Theoretical and Empirical Studies of consciousness.

Asbjørn Skjæveland: A Government Formation in Denmark 1953-1998.

Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen: Studies on the associations between rumination, negative affect and health-related measures.

Kristian Høyer Toft: International Justice and Justificatory Models.

Faculty of Theology

Dr.theol. degrees

Lektor Per Ingesman: Provisioner og processer. Den romerske Rota og dens behandling af danske sager i middelalderen.

Lektor, cand.mag. Jeppe Sinding Jensen: The Study of Religion in a New Key. Theoretical and philosophical soundings in the comparative and general study of religion.

PhD degrees

Cand.mag. Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen: Person and Religion. An Analysis of Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi.

Cand.theol. Erik Kelstrup : Sandhedsbegrebet hos N.F.S. Grundtvig kritiseret ud fra sandhedsteorier i det 20’ende århundredes analytiske og hermeneutiske filosofi.

Cand.theol. Carl Lomholt: Din Fattiges Ret. En rets-teologisk undersøgelse af Pagtsbogen, Ex. 20,22-23,33 som udtryk for retsopfattelsen i Israels tidlige historie.

Cand.theol. Hans Vium Mikkelsen: Reconciled Humanity. A constructive Reading of Revelation and Atonement in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics.

Cand.theol. Jesper Tang Nielsen: Korsets kognitive dimension. En studie i Johannesevangeliets forståelse af Jesu død.

Cand.mag. Marianne Schleicher: A Theology of Redemption .

Faculty of Science

Dr.scient. degrees

Ph.d. Michael M. Hansen: Application of Molecular Markers in Population and Conservation Genetics, with special Emphasis on Fishes.

Ph.d. Martin Holmstrup: Strategies for cold and drought tolerance in permeable spil invertebrates.

Ph.d. Lars Bojer Madsen: Triply Excited States. Correlations in lithium and lithiumlike ions.

PhD degrees

Mathematics

Thomas Johann Britz: Relations, Matroids and Codes.

Rune Eliasen: KK-theory of amalgamated free products of C-algebras.

Per Jensen: Frobenius and complexes.

Morten Skarsholm Risager:  Automorphic forms and modular symbols.

Berit Naomi Skjernaa: Counting Points on Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields of Characteristic 2. 

Physics

Brian Julsgaard: Entanglement and Quantum Interactions with Macroscopic Gas Samples.

Barbara Angelika Kühnle: Molecular self-assembly and chiral recognition: Biologically relevant molecules on metal surfaces.

Thomas Risgaard Laustsen: ENTANGLEMENT The Essence of Quantum Mechanics.

Jorge M De Brito Almeida Sampaio: Weak interaction processes in nuclei for core-collapse supernovae.

Klaus Seiersen: Electron Scattering on Positive and Negative Ions Studied in Heavy-Ion Storage Rings.

Nikolaj Rothe Zangenberg: Defect and diffusion studies in Si and SiGe.

Anvendt Fysik

Anders Rønnau: A Closer Look at the TiO2(110) Surface with STM.

Chemistry

Peter Blakskjær: Modification of Small Peptides Selective Side Chain Introduction onto Small Peptides and Synthesis of Peptide Mimetics via Intermolecular Radical Addition.

Aase Sejr Gothelf: Studies on the Synthesis and Reactivity of Chiral Metal Complexes.

Nis Halland: Catalytic Asymmetric Michael Reactions.

Henrik Helligsø Jensen: Azasugars. Their Synthesis, Glycosidase Inhibitory Activity, and Substituent Constants.

Lars Poulsen: Oxygen Diffusion and Oxygen Imaging in Glassy Polymers.

Brian Schou Rasmussen: Studies on Molecular Recognition.

Ditte Riber: Application of Ketyl- and Acyl-Type Radicals Generated by the One-Electron Reducing Agent. Samarium Diiodide  Synthesis of the Hydrindane Ring System via a Diels-Alder Cycloaddition.

Steen Saaby: Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions of Imines – An Approach to Optically Active Nonproteinogenic alpha-Amino Acids.

Molecular Biology

Trine Elkjær Larsen Crovato: Posttranscriptional regulation of the glutamate receptor subunit 2.

Charlotte Georgi Jakobsen: Establishment of human and murine IgE and IgG combinatorial phage libraries &  Vaccination for birch pollen allergy – comparison of the affinities of specific IgE, IgG1 and IgG4.

Kim Bak Jensen: Identification of Keratinocyte Specific Markers Using Phage Display Functional improvement of phage display derived antibodies.

Mads Breum Larsen: Function and regulation of the human serotonin transporter.

Louise Vagner Laursen: Characterization of the RecQ Helicase, Rqh1, and Topoisomerase III in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

Hanne Poulsen: Studies on ADAR Inter­actions.

Viktor Stepanov: Preparation of tRNAs and tRNA-mimicking RNAs for X-ray diffraction studies.

Karina Dalsgaard Sørensen: Transcription control and pathogenic properties of murine leukemia viruses of the Akv Family.

Lars Aagaard: Interactions between Endogenous Retroviruses and Exogenous Murine Leukemia Virus.

Computer Science

Mario Jose Caccamo: A Formal Calculus for Categories.

Federico Crazzolara: Language, Semantics, and Methods for Security Protocols.

Christian Heide Damm: Collaborative Software Development.

Serge Oliver Fehr: Secure Multi-Player Protocols: Fundamentals, Generality, and Efficiency.

Thomas Mailund Jensen: Sweeping the State Space.

Mads Johan Jurik: Extensions to the Paillier Cryptosystem with Applications to Cryptological Protocols.

Maciej Andrzej Koprowski: Cryptographic Protocols Based on Root Extracting.

Giuseppe Milicia: Applying Formal Methods to Programming Language Design and Implemention.

Jesper Buus Nielsen: On Protocol Security in the Cryptographic Model.

Paulo Borges Oliva: ­ Proof Mining in Subsystems of Analysis.

Marianne Graves Petersen: Design for Learning in Use of Everyday Artefacts.

Frank Darwin Valencia Posso: Temporal Concurrent Constraint Programming.

Claus Brabrand Rasmussen: Domain Specific Languages for Interactive Web Services.

Daniele Varacca: Probability, Nondeterminism and Concurrency: Two Denotional Models for Probabilistic Computation.

Mikkel Nygaard Ravn: Domain Theory for Concurrency.

Jiri Srba: Decidability and Complexity Issues for Infinite-State Processes.

Michael Svanholm Thomsen: Malleable Software Development .

Rasmus Kjær Ursem: Models of Evolutionary Algorithms and Their Applications in System Identification and Control Optimization.

Statistics and Mathematical Economics

Morten Riis: Classical and Non-Classical Stochastic Recourse Programs with Applications in Telecommunications.

Astronomy

Hans Bruntt: Studies of Stellar Clusters: Steps Towards Asteroseismology & A Search for Giant Planets.

History of Science and Technology

Terese Marianne Olga Nielsen: Arguments for Realism in Mathematics: From Gödel to Indispensability.

Biology

Susanne Lildal Amsinck: Development and application of zooplankton-based paleoecological methods with special focus on Danish brakish lakes.

Johnnie Bremholm Andersen: Cardio-respiratory responses to reduced oxygen and increased metabolism in amphibians.

Lars Arve Bach: Individual-based models applied to spatial effects in evolutionary systems.

Jens Bagger: Ecology and ecophysiology of isoetids.

Somchai Bussarawit: The Oyster Fauna of Thailand.

Jonathan David Carl: Assessment of habitat quality for juvenile flounder (Platichtys flesus L.).

Yoko Luise Hayashi Dupont: Ecology, evolution and conservation of plant-pollinator interactions on islands

Mette Hesselholt Henne Hansen: Manipulation and tolerance strategies in relation to host life history in a mosquito – microsporidia system.

Mette Kirkegaard: Regeneration of hair cells in the vestibular organs of mammals.

Bjarne Knudsen: Molecular Evolution and Biological Sequence Analysis.

Ralf Michael Leimbeck: Ecology and Diversity of Neotropical Araceae.

Lone Liboriussen: Production, regulation and ecophysiology of periphyton in shallow freshwater lakes.

Marie Maar: Distributions of zooplankton in relation to biological-physical factors.

Rikke Louise Meyer: Development and use of microscale biosensors for organic and inorganic ions Applications in microbial ecology.

Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen: Implemention of Molecular Methods to Study Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria in Complex Systems.

Jesper Givskov Sørensen: Physiological and evolutionary adaptation to environmental extremes in Drosophila: with particular emphasis on thermal stress and the role of Hsp70.

Pernille Thorbek: Spatio-temporal population dynamics of agrobiont linyphiid spiders.

Peter Langborg Wejse: Purification and characterisation of endo-beta-1,4-D-xylanases from a novel halophilic bacterium.

Annemette Vestergaard Witt: Light acclimation in freshwater macrophytes – with emphasis on photoinhibition..

Geology

Anders Vest Christiansen: Application of airborne TEM methods in Denmark and layered 2D inversion of resistivity data.

Mads Andreas Faurschou Knudsen: Palaeomagnetic investigations of 0-3 Ma volcanics from the Cape Verde archipelago, and modelling of magnetic distortion in rocks.

Kasper Leth Lundgaard: Magma chamber processes studied in two layered intrusions.

Lone Ahlmann Mossin: Dynamic processes in pedogeneses studied from soil and soil water analyses: 1. Podzolization processes in acidified soils under heather and spruce, Hjelm Hede, Denmark. 2. Transformation of ferrihydrite in the laboratory and in iron rich sediments in a mesic temperature regime, Salten Skov, Denmark.

Tom Pfeiffer: Two Catastrophic Volcanic Eruptions in the Mediterranian – Santorini 1645 B.C. and Vesuvius 79 A.D.

Frank Rytter: Modern foraminiferal assemblages and their application in palaeoceanographical reconstructions on the north Icelandic shelf and slope.

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